North American began production of the P-51A Mustang at its Inglewood, California, production plant. As the war effort ramped ...

P-51 Mustang - RAF Service While the P-51 Mustang would go down in history as arguably the best operational piston-engined ...

When the RAF first adopted the P-51 Mustang as part of the lend-lease program something unexpected occurred – namely Luftwaffe bomber pilots didn’t immediately react. The reason was that the ...

U.S.-based aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation originally designed and produced the P-51 Mustang for use by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) in World War II. A single-seat, single ...

Around two years later, RAF engineers decided to equip a Mustang ... the backbone of Nazi Germany's air force, the P-51 conquered handily. It could climb better, had a further range allowing ...

then known as the NA-73 and then as the XP-51, as a supplement to existing squadrons of Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk fighters already in service with the RAF via the Lend-Lease program. Dubbed the North ...

It was during this time that Hitchcock made a trip to Duxford, an RAF development facility, where he learned about a promising new American fighter produced solely for the British — the P-51 ...